JOURNAL ARTICLE

THE AMAZING THEORY OF (ALMOST) EVERYTHING.

  • Published In: New Scientist, 2023, v. 259, n. 3455. P. 32 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Cartwright, Jon 3 of 3

Abstract

IN THE 1960s, Steven Weinberg, together with fellow physicists Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam, created a renormalisable field theory that encompassed both QED and the weak force. IN 1973, physicist Steven Weinberg gave a talk in Aix-en-Provence, France. When a field isn't excited into particles proper, it is frustratingly unobservable - a background murmuring of not-quite-somethings that physicists have come to call "virtual particles". Building on work by theorist Wolfgang Pauli, Fermi showed that electrons could be created, so long as sprightly, neutral particles called neutrinos are created simultaneously. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:New Scientist. 2023/09, Vol. 259, Issue 3455, p32
  • Document Type:Interview
  • Subject Area:Biography
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0262-4079
  • DOI:10.1016/s0262-4079(23)01694-9
  • Accession Number:171517086
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